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<td class="v">6:1</td>
<td>My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,</td>
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<td class="v">6:2</td>
<td>Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.</td>
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<td class="v">6:3</td>
<td>Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.</td>
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<td class="v">6:4</td>
<td>Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.</td>
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<td class="v">6:5</td>
<td>Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.</td>
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<td class="v">6:6</td>
<td>Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:</td>
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<td class="v">6:7</td>
<td>Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,</td>
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<td class="v">6:8</td>
<td>Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.</td>
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<td class="v">6:9</td>
<td>How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?</td>
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<td class="v">6:10</td>
<td>Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:</td>
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<td class="v">6:11</td>
<td>So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.</td>
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<td class="v">6:12</td>
<td>A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.</td>
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<td class="v">6:13</td>
<td>He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;</td>
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<td class="v">6:14</td>
<td>Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.</td>
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<td class="v">6:15</td>
<td>Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.</td>
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<td class="v">6:16</td>
<td>These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:</td>
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<td class="v">6:17</td>
<td>A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,</td>
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<td class="v">6:18</td>
<td>An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,</td>
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<td class="v">6:19</td>
<td>A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.</td>
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<td class="v">6:20</td>
<td>My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:</td>
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<td class="v">6:21</td>
<td>Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.</td>
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<td class="v">6:22</td>
<td>When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.</td>
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<td class="v">6:23</td>
<td>For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:</td>
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<td class="v">6:24</td>
<td>To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.</td>
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<td class="v">6:25</td>
<td>Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.</td>
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<td class="v">6:26</td>
<td>For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.</td>
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<td class="v">6:27</td>
<td>Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?</td>
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<td class="v">6:28</td>
<td>Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?</td>
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<td class="v">6:29</td>
<td>So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.</td>
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<td class="v">6:30</td>
<td>Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;</td>
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<td class="v">6:31</td>
<td>But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.</td>
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<td class="v">6:32</td>
<td>But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.</td>
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<td class="v">6:33</td>
<td>A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.</td>
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<td class="v">6:34</td>
<td>For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.</td>
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<td class="v">6:35</td>
<td>He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.</td>
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